Fedora 18 : mingw-gnutls-2.12.23-1.fc18 (2013-3453)

Version 2.12.23 released 2012-02-04 - libgnutls: Eliminated memory leak in PCKS 11 initialization. Report and fix by Sam Varshavchik. - libgnutls: Fixes in record padding parsing to prevent a timing attack. Issue reported by Kenny Patterson and Nadhem Alfardan. - libgnutls: DN variable 'T' was...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : thunderbird vulnerability (USN-1758-2)

USN-1758-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the corresponding update for Thunderbird. It was discovered that Firefox contained a memory safety issue. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page with the HTML editor, a remote attacker could exploit this to...

Fedora 17 : vdsm-4.10.0-13.fc17 (2013-0210)

Move the certificate generation to the service startup Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fedora 18 : kernel-3.8.2-206.fc18 (2013-3630)

This 3.8.2 update fixes contains a wide variety of important fixes including an issue that many users have seen with backlight during resume. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to...

Fedora 18 : python-tw2-jquery-2.0.3-5.fc18 (2013-1277)

Remove old bundled versions of jquery. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Ubuntu 9.10 : krb5 vulnerability (USN-879-1)

Jeff Blaine, Radoslav Bodo, Jakob Haufe, and Jorgen Wahlsten discovered that the Kerberos Key Distribution Center service did not correctly verify certain network traffic. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send a specially crafted request that would cause the KDC to crash, leading to a...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : nss regression (USN-810-3)

USN-810-1 fixed vulnerabilities in NSS. Jozsef Kadlecsik noticed that the new libraries on amd64 did not correctly set stack memory flags, and caused applications using NSS e.g. Firefox to have an executable stack. This reduced the effectiveness of some defensive security protections. This update...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-690-3)

Several flaws were discovered in the browser engine. These problems could allow an attacker to crash the browser and possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. CVE-2008-5500 Boris Zbarsky discovered that the same-origin check in Firefox could be bypassed by utilizing XBL-bindings. An...

Ubuntu 7.04 / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS : openssh vulnerability (USN-612-2)

A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledg...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS : kdegraphics vulnerabilities (USN-823-1)

It was discovered that KDE-Graphics did not properly handle certain malformed SVG images. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted SVG image, an attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Note th...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : firefox vulnerability (USN-1758-1)

It was discovered that Firefox contained a memory safety issue. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted page with the HTML editor, a remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. Note that Tenable Network Securit...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-645-2)

USN-645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and xulrunner for Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 LTS. This provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered errors in the Firefox URL parsing routines. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : python-django vulnerabilities (USN-1757-1)

James Kettle discovered that Django did not properly filter the Host HTTP header when processing certain requests. An attacker could exploit this to generate and display arbitrary URLs to users. Although this issue had been previously addressed in USN-1632-1, this update adds additional hardening...

Foswiki Detection

The remote host is running Foswiki, an open source wiki system written in Perl. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid65058; scriptversion"1.4"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2022/06/01"; scriptnameenglish:"Foswiki Detection";...

Jenkins Detection

The remote web server hosts Jenkins, a job scheduling / management system and a drop-in replacement for Hudson. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid65054; scriptversion"1.20"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2024/10/03";...

Fedora 18 : kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18 (2013-3223)

Rebase to 3.8.1 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : gnutls13, gnutls26 vulnerability (USN-1752-1)

Nadhem Alfardan and Kenny Paterson discovered that the TLS protocol as used in GnuTLS was vulnerable to a timing side-channel attack known as the 'Lucky Thirteen' issue. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform plaintext-recovery attacks via analysis of timing data. Note that Tenable...

Fedora 17 : cups-1.5.4-18.fc17 (2012-19606)

This update addresses two security issues : - CVE-2012-5519 privilege escalation for users for the CUPS SystemGroup group or via polkit is fixed by moving certain configuration keywords into a separate file, cups-files.conf, which cannot be modified by cupsd. - CVE-2012-6094 configuration issue...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : pidgin vulnerabilities (USN-1746-1)

Chris Wysopal discovered that Pidgin incorrectly handled file transfers in the MXit protocol handler. A remote attacker could use this issue to create or overwrite arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10. CVE-2013-0271 It was discovered that Pidgi...

Fedora 17 : freeipa-2.2.2-1.fc17 (2013-2434)

Update to upstream 2.2.1 GA. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...